Meal planning guides for a better week.
Spend less time wondering what to cook. Start with the food you have, a shopping list that makes sense, and a routine that fits your evenings.
Meal planning on a budget
The price of a recipe is only part of the grocery bill. Plan a week around shared ingredients, check package sizes, and see which dinner adds the most to your basket.
Inside: a five-dinner menu sketch and a worksheet for checking what you need, what you own, and what you will actually buy.
Build a budget-friendly weekPantry meal planning
There may be more dinner in your kitchen than you think. Turn the food already on your shelves into a few meal ideas, then make a shopping list for the missing ingredients.
Follow a kitchen inventory through three dinner ideas and learn what to check before crossing an item off the list.
Plan from what you haveMeal planning vs meal prep
You can plan the week and still cook each dinner fresh. Compare choosing meals, preparing ahead, and batch cooking to find the part that would help you most.
See three ways to arrange a week, including a small start for anyone who does not want to spend Sunday cooking.
Choose what fits your eveningsA guide for the next decision.
Build a dinner routine, get more from the grocery trip, or choose the kind of help you want.
Your dinner routine
A two-week meal rotationKeep the dinners worth repeating, with a printable grid for your own favorites.→Meal planning for shift workersGive dinner a cooking window and a cook, even when the workweek changes.→Put the plan to work.
Work out the amounts, compare the packages, or give your favorite dinners a place in the week. These free kitchen tools run in your browser and give you a result to copy or print.
Quantities & costs
Recipe scalerChange the serving count and keep fractions, ranges and ingredient notes.→Recipe cost calculatorSee the ingredient cost per serving and the whole packages you need to buy.→From an idea to dinner.
See how Repast’s AI picks dinners for your household, adjusts them through conversation, and uses your feedback in later plans. These guides walk through the product’s details.
Start with the step that takes the most work in your household. You can follow the whole planning process or go straight to the list you will use in the store.
- Talk to your AI meal planning assistantAsk for steak on Friday, see the dinner change, and learn how your feedback shapes future plans.→
- How to meal plan with RepastLet AI choose your dinners, review the menu, and get its ingredients in one shopping list.→
- A weekly meal planner around your scheduleChoose your shopping day and cooking nights, then move or replace dinners as the week changes.→
- From recipes to one grocery listSee how repeated ingredients combine, how units are handled, and what happens when a quantity needs checking.→
- Planning for a smaller tableExplore published serving sizes and the grocery list for a household of one or two.→
- Planning for the familyPut household size and the nights you cook into the plan before you start choosing dinners.→
About these guides
These guides are published by Eversight Studio, the maker of Repast. We write about the decisions around dinner: what to cook, what to buy, and how to fit it into a week. Where a worksheet helps, you can use it without installing the app.
Menu sketches and shopping examples are illustrations. They are not recipes tested by our team, personalized nutrition advice, or estimates of what your store will charge. Follow a complete recipe when cooking. Sources for outside guidance appear at the end of each article, and product details describe the features Repast provides.
Have a correction or a question about the app? Repast support has the contact details and answers to common questions.
Your next week can start here.
Tell Repast who is eating and when you cook. Review a week of dinners, then shop from one list with the ingredients added up.
No account to create. iOS 17 or later.